On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in > >> > > make.conf correctly? Mine looks like this: > >> > > > >> > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" > >> > > > >> > > I do NOT use hal so your settings may need to be different but you > >> > > do need the line tho. > >> > > > >> > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes > >> > > X > >> > >> go > >> > >> > back to not starting at all. > >> > >> That's right, you will also then need to install the appropriate x86 > >> driver; > >> e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > > > > You mean like this, the way it's always been? Or is there something more > > specific I have to do? > > treat src # eix x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > > Available versions: 1.5.0{tbz2} {debug} > > Installed versions: 1.5.0{tbz2}(09:38:05 PM 05/11/2010)(-debug) > > Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ > > Description: X.Org driver for mouse input devices > > > > treat src # > > > > BTW, the most recent boot started X without the mouse working, but these > > two lines appear in /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > > line 44-47: (==) |-->Input Device "evdev" > > (==) |-->Input Device "<default keyboard>" > > (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in > > the layout. > > Using the first mouse device. > > > > > > line 457: (==) MACH64(0): Silken mouse enabled > > > > (MACH64 is my video card) > > (My mouse is a Microsoft optical with a USB cord that I use with a PS/2 > > adapter and a KVM switch, which works with Live disks. I have no idea > > what Silken is) > > > > > > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them. > > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and noticed > that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't work, I > should try emerging hal first. Leaving aside the non-effective language, I > tried that and although hal is installed, I can no longer build it. This > may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't compile > the latest wireshark either. Maybe something is hosed deep down. It may > be time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks last > time, and was a major PITA.
I don't know if you have been following the "libpng12 is missing" thread, but for good measure you may want to try lafilefixer --justfixit and revdep- rebuild -p -v -i a number of times first. On two machines of mine (x86) there was no problem. On another (amd64) I had to go through the pain of emerge -e world. -- Regards, Mick
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